If you haven’t already started to seriously plan your Thanksgiving menu, you better start now because T-Day is exactly 2 weeks away. Seriously, two weeks away and you know Costco is going to be crazy next week. This year Thanksgiving is going to be very interesting here. Unlike previous years where I do most of the cooking, this year I am going to be heavily relying on others, especially my husband.
As you’re ready this, I am having my right shoulder surgically repaired because aging + playing sports aggressively + aging (again) = my body is not getting younger and I better treat it right. Earlier this year I dislocated my right shoulder while working out and an MRI revealed that I tore my labrum which is the ligament in my shoulder which holds the ball in my upper arm in the shoulder socket. Because it’s torn, my shoulder easily pops out and dislocates itself which is extremely painful. There are days when opening up the refrigerator hurts so bad it paralyzes me momentarily. After months of physical therapy my shoulder was not getting better and because I would like to continue playing and competing in sports I am having it surgically repaired. Because my physical therapist reads SSL and has probably been wondering what happened to me, all I can say is, “Hi Chris, I’ll be seeing you again very soon.” So as you’re reading this I am probably in surgery or just out of surgery on heavy medication sipping grape juice and eating saltine crackers in a beautiful hospital gown. [Read more…]